The agency’s Interoperability Proving Ground is becoming a hotbed of coronavirus projects. Meanwhile, HIMSS Healthbox has launched a digital think tank to cross-pollinate ideas that work.

An interview with Professor John Beard of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Population Aging Research, University of New South Wales, Australia.

HHS and CMS should immediately distribute funds to every hospital at the rate of $25,000 per bed, or $30,000 in hot spots, AHA says.

The scheme aims to improve access to health data for research and planning.

In what it’s calling an “unprecedented” exercise in information sharing, the administration is calling on health systems to share daily updates from their in-house labs with federal agencies.

Telehealth was singled out as a way to reduce the number of cases entering medical facilities, and to provide a mechanism to monitor and track patients under care in home quarantine.

The state hardest hit by the COVID-19 crisis is assembling new squads of technology companies and skilled IT professionals to “accelerate and amplify” its response to the coronavirus outbreak, and is looking for new recruits.